As far as you dmesg goes, I see a lot of activity regarding wlan0, but no critical errors as such. Rather peculiar.

Rather! The really odd thing is that the network icon on the taskbar still shows that it's connected even though nothing's happening. Is there any chance of you including v. 1.9.6 of carl9170 in RC2? It might not fix the problem but it could be worth a shot.

It's a bit late for RC2, but I should be able to build a pet for you to test. If any good I'll include it in final._________________Woof Mailing List | keep the faith |

As far as you dmesg goes, I see a lot of activity regarding wlan0, but no critical errors as such. Rather peculiar.

The reason for there being a lot of wlan0 activity in the log is me having to repeatedly kick it back into life by reloading the profile and putting the IP addresses back in. No useful errors at all, annoyingly. It just silently falls over, the only sign anything's wrong is when whatever one is actually trying to do eventually times out.

01micko wrote:

Jades wrote:

[Is there any chance of you including v. 1.9.6 of carl9170 in RC2? It might not fix the problem but it could be worth a shot.

It's a bit late for RC2, but I should be able to build a pet for you to test. If any good I'll include it in final.

OK, thanks. I thought about trying to download the firmware myself but was a little thrown by the one in Slacko ending .ko rather than the .fw of the one from that carl9170 page.

just downloaded and frugal installed RC2 PAE to a lenovo t61, found everything straight away

early doors yet but have noticed that the frugal did not install to a folder like 5.3.3 (small 3gb partition running ext2)

not a fan of opera so have loaded a chromium (22) sfs which was asking for an updated plugin - updated to 11..

have loaded my default apps of x11server, tightvnc and wolgui from the old slacko which appear to be running correctly but menu'd to utilities (sorry don't have the skills to help create pets n stuff). also skype2.1beta sfs seems ok

Yeah, not everybody likes Opera but it is the smallest of the big browsers. I like chrome browsers too, but at getting close to 50 M [ ] they are a bit big for a standard pup. Chromium-25 and Chrome-23 are in the PPM for anyone interested

Jades

Noted about your menu concerns. Probably the worst one is Xchat. I should have fixed that .oh.. about a year ago! Will fix.

Geany, well technically it's an IDE, I like it where it is, but I can see your point. I won't change it now, but will consider that in the future.

Generally, some folks don't like submenus at all. You can be rid of them by editing /root/.jwm/JWMRC and you'll see SUBMENUS="0" (or is it 1?), doesn't matter, change it to SUBMENUS="" and run fixmenus

With gimp, that bug will have to stay for the time being as I am having difficulty uploading anything bigger than a couple of meg to ibiblio. This trouble has been ongoing. Sorry about that.

LATER: ok well I obtained the source code for the particular kernel.. but

Code:

#define CARL9170FW_VERSION_GIT "1.9.4"

..looks we're stuck with that version for k3.2.xx.

Looks like there are all sorts of problems with that wifi device. One thing that grabed my attention from the carl9170 page:

Quote:

Users should be aware that these devices might go mad from time to time. Because these BUGs seem to occur too randomly to be identified, but happen often enough to be really annoying, the firmware and driver come with some convenient features to keep the overall downtime at a minimum and without requiring any user intervention. But as mention before there is a caveat: The user has to setup everything properly!

In general: The userspace has to be able to restore connectivity on its own as soon as the device reappears on the USB-Hub.

Note the bold bit. That's where the "dropwait" for Frisbee comes into play. At this point in time only Frisbee can use that feature. rerwin has been working on integrating the "dropwait" option into the other Puppy network tools. So my advice is to use Frisbee and set the "dropwait" to maximum (15).

Might be doing something wrong? Used the Flashboot utility. It completed making the device bootable, offered to install Puppy but message says 'can't find .iso' on CD followed by message' wait while installing' - which it wasn't. Reverted to the standard PUI.

Might be doing something wrong? Used the Flashboot utility. It completed making the device bootable, offered to install Puppy but message says 'can't find .iso' on CD followed by message' wait while installing' - which it wasn't. Reverted to the standard PUI.

Were you booting and running from the live Slacko CD?_________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected Edited_time_total

Forum member josejp2424 has reported that the Spanish language pack adds extra menu entries in Slacko. He doesn't specify what version of Slacko is using, but it is known that in Slacko 5.3.3 this does happen.

Language packs have a collection of .desktop files for menu entries of many Puppy versions, including derivatives, they are stored in a special separate folder called applications.in at /usr/share, so that when the system language is changed, the translations at /usr/share/applications.in are copied only to existing entries at /usr/share/applications. Josejp2424 reported that Precise Puppy doesn't have the bug, this is because it had many bug fixes recently including handling of menu entries. However, as you can see in the picture below, in Precise extra files are added to /usr/share/applications too, but the menu doesn't display those extra entries.

I can't download Slacko RC2 to test, so please could someone test the language pack and tell if the bug is still present?:

Might be doing something wrong? Used the Flashboot utility. It completed making the device bootable, offered to install Puppy but message says 'can't find .iso' on CD followed by message' wait while installing' - which it wasn't. Reverted to the standard PUI.

The ISO file itself is not on the CD. The contents of the ISO are.

IIRC, the Bootflash installer is designed for users who have downloaded the ISO but don't want to burn a CD.

fresh (frugal) install to a dell dx520 p4 2.8gHz machine that has been on a shelf

now forming my music server attached to the hifi stack (run out of room on my desktop for iso's........)

livecd boot found everything as usual, had a little trouble on first save (it didn't) but it did put into a frugal directory this time, so will check the install on my t61

running quickly. have intsalled wolgui, simplesamba, x11server and tightvnc from old 5.3.3 pets and working fine

has no trouble running as thin client without keyboard/mouse

just copy mp3's across network to give a full test but looking really good

edit - now have a couple of desktops hooked up to my network for storage/music so have plenty of processors free to do compiling BUT I don't know how, if anybody close (ish) to lincoln (uk) who could help please get in touch - ta!Edited_time_total

Having completed the first-run screens I opted to reboot in order to create a savefile before proceeding further. No sizes were offered then the screen below appeared. Not sure I passed the sanity test or not.

IIRC there was some sort of recent woof fix for saving to whole partitions. Not that I was going to try that but the "fix" may account for this.